The International Conference and Workshop on Agglutinative Language Technologies as a challenge of Natural Language Processing, ALTNLP’22, June 7-8, Koper, Slovenia Jernej Vičič1 , Branko Kavšek1 1 Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Science and Information Technologies, University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia Abstract Foreword to the ALTNLP 2022 Proceedings 1. Foreword to the ALTNLP 2022 Proceedings The International Conference on Agglutinative Language Technologies as a challenge of Natural Language Processing (ALTNLP) has established itself as a multidisciplinary conference in natural language processing and machine learning along with, Computational Optimization. ALTNLP provides an international online forum for the presentation of original multidisciplinary research results as well as a platform for the exchange and dissemination of innovative and practical development. ALTNLP aims to explore and discuss modern issues and approaches of natural language processing and machine learning to agglutinative languages and other weakly formalized languages. ALTNLP’s main objective is to provide an opportunity for leading academic scientists, researchers, engineers, scholars and other professionals from all over the world to contribute to the development of these fields and exchange new ideas as well as research outcomes in related fields, in turn, establishing lasting partnerships for future collaboration. The 2022 was the first edition of the conference/workshop, this time only in online edition although the ALTNLP aims to establish itself as a direct access platform for exchange of research ideas. There were 27 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 18 papers were accepted for this volume, 16 as regular papers and 2 as short papers. We were happy to receive submissions from all across the globe and one of the sweet problems we had to take into account was the vast difference among local time-zones of the accepted authors. The International Conference and Workshop on Agglutinative Language Technologies as a challenge of Natural Language Processing, ALTNLP’22, June 7-8, Koper, Slovenia Envelope-Open jernej.vicic@upr.si (J. Vičič); branko.kavsek@upr.si (B. Kavšek) © 2022 Copyright for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). CEUR Workshop Proceedings http://ceur-ws.org ISSN 1613-0073 CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org) 2. Committees 2.1. Invited Speakers • Katharina Kann, CU Boulder, USA • Eckhard Bick, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark • Mans Hulden, University of Arizona, USA 2.2. General Chairs • Branko Kavšek, University of Primorska, FAMNIT, Slovenia • Jernej Vičič, University of Primorska, FAMNIT, Slovenia • John E. Ortega, New York University, New York, USA 2.3. Program Committee • Branko Kavšek, University of Primorska, FAMNIT, Slovenia • Jernej Vičič, University of Primorska, FAMNIT, Slovenia • John E. Ortega, New York University, New York, USA • Khabibulla Madatov, Urgench State University, Uzbekistan • Murat Orhun, İstanbul Bilgi University, Turkey • Peter Rogelj, University of Primorska, FAMNIT, Slovenia • Jamolbek Mattiev, Urgench State University, Uzbekistan • Anja Žnidaršič, University of Maribor, Slovenia • Izaskun Aldezabal Roteta, University of the Basque Country • Jose Maria Arriola, University of the Basque Country • Vida Groznik, University of Primorska, FAMNIT, Slovenia • Aleksander Sadikov, University of Ljubljana, FRI, Slovenia • Mateja Jemec Tomazin, ZRC SAZU, Slovenia • William Chen, University of Central Florida, USA • Rodolfo Joel Zevallos Salazar, Universitat Pompeu Fabra- Barcelona, Spain • Javid Huseynov, School of Professional Studies Columbia University, USA • Sree Ganesh Thotempudi, SRH University of Heidelberg, Germany • Elmurod Kuriyzov, University of La Coruna, Spain 2.4. Secretariat • Gorazd Drevenšek, University of Primorska, FAMNIT, Slovenia • Klara Lelja, University of Primorska, FAMNIT, Slovenia • Larisa Lara Pohorec, University of Primorska, FAMNIT, Slovenia • Lina Šenica, University of Primorska, FAMNIT, Slovenia • Leila Winkler, University of Primorska, FAMNIT, Slovenia